Composite fur pelt and method of making same and fur coat

ABSTRACT

A novel fur pelt and method of manufacturing same, and fur coats and the like made from long-haired furs. The pelt has a very attractive feathery and stripe effect, and the bulk of the fur is reduced. Also, each fur pelt covers a much larger area than its original size, and it is wider and longer than the original pelt.

United States Patent [191 Leinoff [4 1 Sept, 25, 1973 COMPOSITE FUR PELT AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME AND FUR COAT [76] Inventor: Davld Lelno'll, 71 Park Ave, New

York, N.Y. 22 Filed: July 24, 1972 21 Appl. No.: 274,196

[52] US. Cl. .Q 2/65, 69/22 [51] lnt. Cl. A4ld 5/00, C14b 1/00- [58] Field of Search 69/22; 2/65 [56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,558,279 10/1925 Post {.1 69/22 2,196,273 4/1940 Schalz 69/22 X Primary Examiner-Alfred R. Guest Attorney-Harold L. Stults et al.

[57] ABSTRACT A novel fur pelt and method of manufacturing same, and fur coats and the like made from long-haired furs. The pelt has a very attractive feathery and stripe effect, and the bulk of the fur is reduced. Also, each fur pelt covers a much larger area than its original size, and it is wider and longer than the original pelt.

8 Claims, 6 Drawing Figures 1 COMPOSITE FUR PELT AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME AND FUR COAT This invention relates to producing unique design effects on long-haired pelts, and to producing fur coats and the like. I

An object of this invention is to produce fur pelts having an attractive stripe effect. Anotherobject is to produce fur coats or the like which are attractive and unique in appearance, and in which the bulk of the fur is reduced. Anotherobject is to broaden the range of use of long-haired furs. These and other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out below.

In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a fur coat made in accordance with the invention;

FIG. 2 is a view of the composite pelt of the type used in making the fur coat of FIG. 1;

FIG. 2a is a near full size view of the portion 9 of the composite 'pelt of FIG. 2; and,

FIGS. 3, 4 and 5 are somewhat diagrammatic views illustrating the method of producing the pelt of FIG. 2.

Referring to FIG. 1 of the drawings, the coat 2 is formed of a number of individual composite pelts 4 and portions thereof which are unique in construction and in appearance. Composite pelts 4 are of the types shown in FIG. 2 with herringbone stripes, there being light stripes 6 and dark stripes 8. The skin side of composite pelt 4 is shown in FIG. 5 and it is produced from an original badger pelt such as that indicated at 10 in FIG. 3. To produce a composite pelt 4, the original pelt -is first slitted or cut as illustrated by pelt 12 in FIG. 4.

The original pelt is cut along it longitudinal center line at 14 to form two half-pelts 15, and each of the halfpelts is then slit along cut lines 16 which are substantially parallel and at an angle to the side edge 17 of the pelt along line 14.However, each cut line does not extend completely to the opposite edges of the pelt so that there is an uncut edge portion 18 along edge 17 and an uncut portion 20 along the opposite edge 19. The principal cut lines are at an angle of the order of 45 from line 14, although at the bottom of the pelt that angle is greater, illustratively, a maximum of 80.

Referring now to FIG. 5, the processing of each halfpelt of FIG. 4 is continued by first extending each cut line. through the edge portions 18 and to produce a series of individual fur strips 22, 24 and 26, etc. The fur strips are kept in their original series relationship, and a strip of soft leather 28 is positioned beneath each fur strip and the next and each of its edges is sewed to the coextensive fur-strip edge. That forms a composite half-pelt 30 which is then sewed to the composite half-pelt produced from the other half of its original pelt to thereby produce the composite pelt 4.

Each composite pelt is of much greater area than its original pelt, i.e., it is much longer and somewhat wider. The hairs on the pelt tend to lie down from the head toward the tail of the animal, and the separating of the strips 22, 24, 26 etc. causes the hairs from one fur strip to lie down in somewhat shingle fashion over.

the next adjacent leather strip and onto the next fur strip below it. Hence, each row of hairs on a fur strip extends at an angle across the strip of leather and has a generally normal posture with the tips of the hairs covering the base ends of the hairs on the next fur strip below it. That exposes the central portions of the hairs, which in this embodiment are light in color, whereas ens the scope of use of furs of that general type. Pelt 4 has a herringbone stripe effect although it should be noted that the sleeves and collar of the coat in FIG. 1 have straight stripes. However, it is important to provide the desired angular relationship between the stripes and the normal attitude of the hairs on the pelt. The hairs must extend across the leather strips at the desired angle. As indicated above, the hair on the badger pelts has dark tips in contrast to the light main portions of the hairs. Other long-haired furs have other differences between the tips and the remainder of the hairs so as to produce stripe effects and other effects based upon shadings and other characteristics of the hairs.

What is claimed is:

1. As an article of manufacture, a composite pelt formed of fur strips cut from a long haired pelt in which the tip portions of the pelt hairs are dark and the remainder of the hairs, between the skin and the dark tips, is light; and connector strips operatively connected to and alternated with said first strips whereby each connector strip is positioned between two fur strips with said connector strips having a width dimension between adjacent furstrips selected to be greater than the length of the dark tip portions of the pelt hairs and less than the length of the pelt hairs, whereby the pelt hairs on said fur strips extend across adjacent connector strips with the dark tips of the pelt hairs overlying the light portions of the pelt hairs on the next fur strip, thereby to expose said light portions of the pelt hairs and produce a striped effect.

2. An article of manufacture as described in claim 1 wherein the angle between the side edges of said connector strip and the general direction of the pelt hairs is of the order of 45.

3. An article of manufacture as described in claim 2 wherein said connector strips are of leather.

4. An article of manufacture as described in claim 3 which includes additional composite pelts described and formed into a fur coat or the like.

5. The method of producing fur coats and the like from long haired fur pelts in which the tip portions of the pelt hairs are dark and the remainder of the hairs, between the skin and the dark tips is light, which method comprises, the steps of, cutting a pelt into fur strips of substantially the same width at a substantial angle to the general direction in which the pelt hairs normally repose, maintaining said fur strips in their normal relative positions, inserting an insert strip of substantially uniform width between each fur strip and the next, the width dimension of said insert strips being selected to be greater than the length of the dark tip portions of the pelt hairs and less than the length of the pelt hairs, attaching the adjacent edges of the fur strips and the adjacent insert strips to produce a composite pelt which is longer and wider than the original pelt and in which the hair from each fur strip normally reposes like.

' 4 tional composite pelts by repeating the above steps, and assembling the composite pelts into a coat or the v 7. The method as described in claim 5 wherein the fur strips are held together after the first step by an uncut edge portion of the original pelt.

8. The method as described in claim 5 wherein the pelt is a badger pelt.

l l I! l UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION PATENT NO. 25 1973 DATED I Septem er INVENTORGO David Leinoff It is certified that error appears in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent are hereby corrected as shown below:

Column 2, line 31 (claim l, line 6) change "first" to -fur-.

Signed and Scaled this Twenty-second Day Of February 1977 [SEAL] Arrest:

RUTH C. MASON C. MARSHALL DANN Arresting Officer Commissioner ofParenrs and Trademarks 

1. As an article of manufacture, a composite pelt formed of fur strips cut from a long haired pelt in which the tip portions of the pelt hairs are dark and the remainder of the hairs, between the skin and the dark tips, is light; and connector strips operatively connected to and alternated with said first strips whereby each connector strip is positioned between two fur strips with said connector strips having a width dimension between adjacent fur strips selected to be greater than the length of the dark tip portions of the pelt hairs and less than the length of the pelt hairs, whereby the pelt hairs on said fur strips extend across adjacent connector strips with the dark tips of the pelt hairs overlying the light portions of the pelt hairs on the next fur strip, thereby to expose said light portions of the pelt hairs and produce a striped effect.
 2. An article of manufacture as described in claim 1 wherein the angle between the side edges of said connector strip and the general direction of the pelt hairs is of the order of 45*.
 3. An article of manufacture as described in claim 2 wherein said connector strips are of leather.
 4. An article of manufacture as described in claim 3 which includes additional composite pelts described and formed into a fur coat or the like.
 5. The method of producing fur coats and the like from long haired fur pelts in which the tip portions of the pelt hairs are dark and the remainder of the hairs, between the skin and the dark tips is light, which method comprises, the steps of, cutting a pelt into fur strips of substantially the same width at a substantial angle to the general direction in which the pelt hairs normally repose, maintaining said fur strips in their normal relative positions, inserting an insert strip of substantially uniform width between each fur strip and the next, the width dimension of said insert strips being selected to be greater than the length of the dark tip portions of the pelt hairs and less than the length of the pelt hairs, attaching the adjacent edges of the fur strips and the adjacent insert strips to produce a composite pelt which is longer and wider than the original pelt and in which the hair from each fur strip normally reposes across one of the next adjacent insert strips at an angle to its longitudinal dimension whereby the pelt hairs on said fur strips extend across adjacent insert strips with the dark tips of the pelt hairs overlying the light portions of the pelt hairs on the next fur strip, thereby to expose said light portions of the pelt hairs and produce a striped effect.
 6. The method as described in claim 5 which includes the additional steps of producing a plurality of additional composite pelts by repeating the above steps, and assembling the composite pelts into a coat or the like.
 7. The method as described in claim 5 wherein the fur strips are held together after the first step by an uncut edge portion of the original pelt.
 8. The method as described in claim 5 wherein the pelt is a badger pelt. 